*He was almost bald with only “peach fuzz” covering his scalp. He was reportedly wearing a wig at the time of his death. The bridge of his nose had vanished and its right side had partially collapsed.

*He was dotted with needle wounds on his hips, thighs and shoulders, believed to be the result of injections of narcotic painkillers he took three times a day for years. And a mass of surgery scars that suggest he had at least 13 cosmetic operations.

*His ribs were broken by CPR as paramedics tried to revive the singer after he collapsed in cardiac arrest. And 4 injection sites near his heart were found, apparently the result of a failed attempt to pump adrenaline directly into the organ to restart it.

"Michael’s family and fans will be horrified when they realise the appalling state he was in,” a source close to the Jackson camp said.

"He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he’d been in terminal decline for years.”